AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP +498%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Jul 2011

Polaris

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

4

-

896

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

39W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Redwood

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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